When you move into an off-campus housing situation you always forget that you face the possibility of your landlord and a group of strangers walking through your house and looking at all of your different possessions. Last year when my roommates and I were looking for houses to rent we did end up walking through a couple of houses that had people living in them, but when the time came around this year for people to start touring our house we were completely unprepared. As you may infer, living with three other guys and four different animals lead to a rather messy house compared to a house with normal living conditions. That being said, when the landlord texted me on a Thursday afternoon wanting to show the house later that night everyone in the house went into a panic. Luckily, we were able to push the visit off until the following Monday, but there was a substantial amount of cleaning in front of us in order to get the house back up to tip-top standards. 
Over the course of that weekend, we collectively put in about 40 hours of backbreaking cleaning before we finally got the house up to par. For myself, this involved washing the four loads of laundry that have been piled up in my room for the past two weeks and picking up all of the beer caps I have thrown all over the house. There was also a blanket of cat and dog hair that we had to vacuum up from the floor and we went through an absurd amount of air freshener. By 11 p.m. Sunday night the house was finally presentable and we were able to give a tour Monday night. Unfortunately, we did such a good job cleaning the house that the landlord has scheduled two back to back visits for Wednesday night so we are not out of the woods yet, but at least we have a clean house.
This seemed to flow kind of like the Cat of the Hat as just a completely rushed, rowdy and unexpected cleaning session that eventually results in nobody even knowing that anything was out of place in the first place. Hopefully you can find that middle ground of not too dirty for the landlord but dirty enough to postpone randoms visiting.
ReplyDeleteThanks for making the house look so good for me Monday! Hopefully we will be the next residents!
ReplyDeleteI absolutely know the feeling. We have a five girls and a dog living in our house. Although we are pretty clean, random visits from the landlord and potential renters are never pleasant. But hey, now you have a clean house! Maybe people should stop by more often?
ReplyDeleteI literally laughed out loud at your meme. Luckily, my friends want to rent the house I live in now next year after me and my roommates so we will not have any randoms visits from our landlord and strangers.
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